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Nymphaea lotus, commonly called the Tiger Lotus or Egyptian White Water-lily, is a flowering plant of family Nymphaeaceae that grows in various parts of East Africa and Southeast Asia. Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Divisions Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Hepatophyta - liverworts Anthocerophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants Adiantum pedatum (a fern... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also angiosperms or Magnoliophyta) are one of the major groups of modern plants, comprising those that produce seeds in specialized reproductive organs called flowers, where the ovulary or carpel is enclosed. ... Orders see text Dicotyledons or dicots are flowering plants whose seed contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. ... Families Cabombaceae - fanworts Nymphaeaceae - water lilies The Nymphaeales are an order of flowering plants, including two families of aquatic herbs: Family Nymphaeaceae (waterlily family) Family Cabombaceae (fanwort family) Sometimes the Cabombaceae are included within the Nymphaeaceae. ... Genera Barclaya Wall. ... Species N. alba - European white waterlily - blue Egyptian lotus - white Egyptian lotus more. ... In biology, binomial nomenclature is a standard convention used for naming species. ... A painting of Carolus Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné, and who wrote under the Latinized name Carolus Linnaeus (May 23, 1707 – January 10, 1778), was a Swedish scientist who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of taxonomy. ... Genera Barclaya Wall. ... Africa is the worlds second-largest continent and 3rd most populous. ... Location of Southeast Asia Southeast Asia is a subregion of Asia. ...
COMMON NAME: Tiger Lotus; Egyptian White Water-lily FAMILY: Nymphaeaceae RANGE: East Africa; Southeast Asia AQUASCAPE: specimen plant HEIGHT: To 18" (45 cm) AH: From 16" (40 cm) WATER: bright LIGHT: pH: 5.5-7.2; 3-12; 72-82°F (22-28°C)
The lotus has long been valued as a religious symbol by numerous cultures, and is also a useful source of food, since most of the parts of the plant are edible.
The leaves of a lotus are round, and they float on the surface of the water, connected to long trailing stems which terminate in rhizomes running below the mud of the river or lake bed.
According to Buddhist tradition, the lotus is associated with enlightenment and the Buddha.
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